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Point cloud registration is a classical topic in the field of 3D Vision and Computer Graphics. Generally, the implementation of registration is typically sensitive to similarity transformations (translation, scaling, and rotation), noisy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Chenlei Lv , Hui Huang

3D point cloud registration is a fundamental task in robotics and computer vision. Recently, many learning-based point cloud registration methods based on correspondences have emerged. However, these methods heavily rely on such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Lifa Zhu , Dongrui Liu , Changwei Lin , Rui Yan , Francisco Gómez-Fernández , Ninghua Yang , Ziyong Feng

We propose a systematic approach for registering cross-source point clouds. The compelling need for cross-source point cloud registration is motivated by the rapid development of a variety of 3D sensing techniques, but many existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-07 Xiaoshui Huang , Jian Zhang , Lixin Fan , Qiang Wu , Chun Yuan

Cross-source point cloud registration, which aims to align point cloud data from different sensors, is a fundamental task in 3D vision. However, compared to the same-source point cloud registration, cross-source registration faces two core…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Zongyi Xu , Zhongpeng Lang , Yilong Chen , Shanshan Zhao , Xiaoshui Huang , Yifan Zuo , Yan Zhang , Qianni Zhang , Xinbo Gao

With current trends in sensors (cheaper, more volume of data) and applications (increasing affordability for new tasks, new ideas in what 3D data could be useful for); there is corresponding increasing interest in the ability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Giang Truong , Huu Le , Alvaro Parra , Syed Zulqarnain Gilani , Syed M. S. Islam , David Suter

Rigid registration of partial observations is a fundamental problem in various applied fields. In computer graphics, special attention has been given to the registration between two partial point clouds generated by scanning devices.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Zihao Yan , Zimu Yi , Ruizhen Hu , Niloy J. Mitra , Daniel Cohen-Or , Hui Huang

Point cloud registration is a fundamental problem in computer vision that aims to estimate the transformation between corresponding sets of points. Non-rigid registration, in particular, involves addressing challenges including various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Sara Monji-Azad , Marvin Kinz , Jürgen Hesser

Probabilistic 3D point cloud registration methods have shown competitive performance in overcoming noise, outliers, and density variations. However, registering point cloud pairs in the case of partial overlap is still a challenge. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Guofeng Mei , Fabio Poiesi , Cristiano Saltori , Jian Zhang , Elisa Ricci , Nicu Sebe

Real-time registration of partially overlapping point clouds has emerging applications in cooperative perception for autonomous vehicles and multi-agent SLAM. The relative translation between point clouds in these applications is higher…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Eduardo Arnold , Sajjad Mozaffari , Mehrdad Dianati

Point cloud registration is a fundamental problem in 3D scanning. In this paper, we address the frequent special case of registering terrestrial LiDAR scans (or, more generally, levelled point clouds). Many current solutions still rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-03 Zhipeng Cai , Tat-Jun Chin , Alvaro Parra Bustos , Konrad Schindler

This study presents a high-accuracy, efficient, and physically induced method for 3D point cloud registration, which is the core of many important 3D vision problems. In contrast to existing physics-based methods that merely consider…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Zhao Mingyang , Ma Lei , Jia Xiaohong , Yan Dong-Ming , Huang Tiejun

Point cloud registration is the process of aligning a pair of point sets via searching for a geometric transformation. Unlike classical optimization-based methods, recent learning-based methods leverage the power of deep learning for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Lingjing Wang , Xiang Li , Yi Fang

Point cloud registration involves determining a rigid transformation to align a source point cloud with a target point cloud. This alignment is fundamental in applications such as autonomous driving, robotics, and medical imaging, where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Yu-Xin Zhang , Jie Gui , Baosheng Yu , Xiaofeng Cong , Xin Gong , Wenbing Tao , Dacheng Tao

For the registration of partially overlapping point clouds, this paper proposes an effective approach based on both the hard and soft assignments. Given two initially posed clouds, it firstly establishes the forward correspondence for each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-02 Congcong Jin , Jihua Zhu , Yaochen Li , Shaoyi Du , Zhongyu Li , Huimin Lu

3D point cloud registration is a fundamental problem in computer vision and robotics. There has been extensive research in this area, but existing methods meet great challenges in situations with a large proportion of outliers and time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Kexue Fu , Shaolei Liu , Xiaoyuan Luo , Manning Wang

3D motion estimation including scene flow and point cloud registration has drawn increasing interest. Inspired by 2D flow estimation, recent methods employ deep neural networks to construct the cost volume for estimating accurate 3D flow.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Xiaodong Gu , Chengzhou Tang , Weihao Yuan , Zuozhuo Dai , Siyu Zhu , Ping Tan

Accurate registration of 2D imagery with point clouds is a key technology for image-LiDAR point cloud fusion, camera to laser scanner calibration and camera localization. Despite continuous improvements, automatic registration of 2D and 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-13 Huai Yu , Weikun Zhen , Wen Yang , Sebastian Scherer

In this work, we propose computational models and algorithms for point cloud registration with non-rigid transformation. First, point clouds sampled from manifolds originally embedded in some Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^D$ are transformed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-06-17 Rongjie Lai , Hongkai Zhao

Scene-level point cloud registration is very challenging when considering dynamic foregrounds. Existing indoor datasets mostly assume rigid motions, so the trained models cannot robustly handle scenes with non-rigid motions. On the other…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Keyu Du , Hao Xu , Haipeng Li , Hong Qu , Chi-Wing Fu , Shuaicheng Liu

Multi-view point cloud registration is fundamental in 3D reconstruction. Since there are close connections between point clouds captured from different viewpoints, registration performance can be enhanced if these connections be harnessed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Yue Wu , Yibo Liu , Maoguo Gong , Peiran Gong , Hao Li , Zedong Tang , Qiguang Miao , Wenping Ma